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A 65-year-old inmate serving an indeterminate sentence for second-degree murder died in custody at the Regional Psychiatric Centre on Sunday. According to assistant warden Tim Krause, Xavier Batoche was receiving palliative care. According to a news release issued Tuesday by Correctional Service Canada, Batoche was also serving time for impaired driving, driving while disqualified and obstructing […]

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Jacqueline Brooks says she will never forget how it felt to get the phone call every parent dreads, informing her that her child had been in a serious collision. On April 18, 2014, her now 46-year-old daughter Peri Boehm’s vehicle had slid off Highway 12 north of Martensville. Two trucks stopped to help pull her out […]

A man who paid a woman for sex, then drove her to the outskirts of Saskatoon after an unknown dispute and choked her until she was almost unconscious, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Judge Doug Agnew summarized his sentencing decision Tuesday in Saskatoon provincial court for Chancey Brent Heiser. The 34-year-old […]

Just because something is easy, that doesn’t make it right. Ontario provincial corrections placed Adam Capay into solitary confinement for four years where he only saw artificial light and had little interaction with anyone other than his guards. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last fall gave his justice minister a specific mandate to end solitary confinement […]

A North Battleford man whose dramatic arrest was captured on video has been sentenced for assault, a weapons offence and resisting arrest. A dashboard video of 30-year-old Randall Christopher Nicotine’s arrest was viewed tens of thousands of times after it was posted on YouTube in April. The video — entitled ‘Epic RCMP Takedown!’ — was viewed nearly […]

In a prepared statement released to the Saskatoon StarPhoenix late Monday, Denis Hall announced his decision to withdraw his candidacy for a seat on the Catholic school board. “The use of the terms ‘pedophile’ and ‘sexual assault’ by the mainstream media are completely and categorically false,” Hall stated, referring to online news reports published earlier […]

PRINCE ALBERT — Federal corrections officials say they’re investigating how a convicted murderer escaped from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert. Correctional Service Canada spokesman Jeff Campbell says Roger Joseph Gillet was being held in the minimum-security unit when prison staff discovered he was missing during Friday morning’s count. The minimum-security unit does not have a fence, […]

Ed.’s Note: Contents may be disturbing to some readers. A 36-year-old man who sent a photo of his penis to a 13-year-old girl on Facebook has been sentenced to 15 months in jail. Robert Hawkins pleaded guilty to luring a child by using a computer to facilitate the commission of a crime between April and June 2014. Hawkins […]

A man from the Wakaw area and a woman from Melfort will serve federal sentences for conspiring to kill their spouses in a case that shocked many in rural Saskatchewan and beyond. Curtis Vey, 53, and Angela Nicholson, 52, received three-year sentences on two counts each of conspiracy to commit murder. Chief Justice Martel Popescul handed […]

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission operated on the principle that Canadian society must acknowledge and provide restitution for its participation in Canada’s colonial system before reconciliation can meaningfully begin. Residential schools were the Commission’s focus, but constitute only one piece of colonialism, a system which takes many forms, and continues today. There are many actions […]

Wiping tears from his eyes, Rida Naim listened as a judge sentenced him for a brazen daytime robbery at a downtown Saskatoon jewelry store, calling the crime “terrifying and dangerous.” Four men stormed into Birks around 10 a.m. on Feb. 1, 2014. Without saying a word to the two clerks working that morning, they started smashing display […]

A man whose friend was killed during a home invasion they were involved with in the Grosvenor Park neighbourhood is appealing the seven-year sentence he received last month. Nicholas Francis MacLeod, 20, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and wearing a face mask during the commission of an offence. He, along with Nathaniel Taylor Narula and […]

DAYSLAND, Alta. — A dangerous offender from Saskatchewan who escaped while on day leave from a central Alberta powwow earlier this month is back in custody. RCMP said Darrell Peter Moosomin was arrested without incident Sunday evening after police got a tip about a man answering Moosomin’s description who was hitchhiking on Highway 13 near Daysland, southeast […]

The Saskatchewan man convicted in the biggest fraud case in the province’s history has been denied early release from prison. Ronald Jerry Fast, 73, is serving a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime. He was arrested in 2012 following a two-year police investigation that revealed Fast had […]

A young man who raped a teen while she was skipping classes will serve a three-year prison sentence. Taiwo Adewale Onidare, 21, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Saskatoon provincial court to sexual assault in relation to the May 7, 2014 incident when he forced himself on a 14-year-old girl. He was 19 years old at the time […]

More than a dozen investors were lined up to testify this week about how much money Joshua Douglas Johnston took from them, but they no longer have to, after Johnston said he wouldn’t dispute the amount of the fraud anymore — all $1.2 million of it. Johnston’s sentencing hearing was set for four days this week, but when it began on Monday in Saskatoon provincial court, Johnston, who didn’t have a lawyer with him in court, said he didn’t want to “drag this out any longer.” He said he plans to transfer to Saskatoon similar charges that he faces in Alberta, so that he can be sentenced on everything all at once.

A drunk driver who refused to get treatment for his alcohol problems changed his mind after he learned in Saskatoon court that he was heading straight to jail. “I’m going to jail today?” Kirby Keith Thomas asked as the judge pronounced a three-month jail sentence Wednesday in provincial court. Deputy sheriffs stood by with handcuffs ready.

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